The Little Cica Mini PC: A Real-World Problem Solver

As I sat down to record my latest video, I had two ideas that I thought would make a lot of sense. The first was as a router, possibly even a travel router with the Dual NYX and Wi-Fi antenna connections. I considered installing something like OpenWRT and using it as a router and wireless access point. If I wanted to take it further, I could have used the mini PCIe slot to add in a cellular modem and SIM card for a wireless connection on the go.

However, I had another idea that really caught my attention. I wanted to set up this little Cica Mini PC as an NVR using something like Blue Iris. The Dual NYX could be useful here, allowing me to connect my network with one and then isolate all of my cameras on a separate network or VLAN using the other. With the m.2 and PCIe slots, I could add more storage or faster networking, as well as drop in something like a Coral TPU for object detection.

With all four HDMI ports, I could even hook up multiple monitors if I wanted to have an actual surveillance station. So, I downloaded Blue Iris as well as Code Project AI which would handle the object detection for that. Although I already had one of these Coral TPUs in an m.2 e key form factor, it was currently in my little ProX MOX Mini PC. Since I already had one of these in a mini PCIe version, I bought a half-length card, but then realized it wasn't going to be necessary due to the well-documented standards of the mini PCI slot.

I threw together a design and printed it out, and after a bit of tinkering, I got my camera set up and object detection working. I only had a few cameras, so I used a project I found on GitHub to stack multiple RTSP streams. I then grabbed a few old extra monitors but ran out of VGA adapters, so I grabbed the little portable HDMI monitor.

Eventually, I had a sweet little surveillance setup with multiple monitors. You might remember from the beginning of this video that I mentioned that this little Cica Mini PC might have found a place in my home lab. That's sort of true; I wasn't just testing out Blue Iris for the sake of this video. I was also testing it out to see if I wanted to switch to that rather than continuing to use Surveillance Station on my old Sonology NAS.

Instead of hooking it up in the closet with all of my networking gear and servers, I actually used the mounting mechanism to attach it to the bottom of this table in my living room. This means I can easily access the computer and hook it directly up to my TV for quickly monitoring Blue Iris or even using it as a little home theater PC.

It might seem unusual that it's not in the closet with all of my other networking gear, but having it here also means I have a computer in the living room that can do multiple things. It won't contribute more heat to the little closet, which is actually quite convenient. If someone were to break into my house and steal everything out of the networking closet, they might not find the little mini PC tucked underneath the table.

However, if for some reason I lost both of my traz servers, which would have the security footage backed up to them, I would still have the first copy on the SSD in my Blue Iris machine. This makes me feel a bit safer.

In terms of performance and features, this little Cica Mini PC is quite solid. It offers flexibility, and most importantly, it's just a lot of fun to mess around with. Odds are that you won't be able to go out there right now and buy something exactly like this for a good price. But who knows? Maybe keep your eyes peeled for a good deal.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this video, if so, maybe consider giving this video a like and watching a few more. That's about it for this one though.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI love tinkering with computers and seeing what all they can do but if we're being honest typical consumer PCS can get a little dull that's why I'm always on the hunt for things like this this little PC may have been designed for one specific purpose but today we're going to explore what hidden features it might have how it can be repurposed in interesting and useful ways and why it might just earn a permanent spot in my home lab one day while perusing through eBay listings I came across this PC from cica based off of the title and the existence of four HDMI ports it was clear that this was designed for digital signage but I also noticed the Dual NYX modern Intel processor and this HDMI input well what could have been an HDMI input obviously it wasn't punched out but all of those potential features and the simple industrial case had me really intrigued and I won the auction for just a little over $100 in total I didn't look up the specs so I really didn't know if that was a good or bad deal but I was already pretty set on checking it out when I first got out of the packaging I was a bit surprised at how clean it was I didn't expect a ton of scrapes or dents since I imagined this would have spent most of its life tucked behind some TVs or something but I at least expected some dust or goop but as I said it looked to be in really good condition however I did immediately notice the first big issue so I didn't realize it doesn't have a power adapter dang it if only used a USBC Port then I could have easily powered it from this adorable Uno charger 100 watt from today's sponsor ug green the face on this cute little guy isn't just for looks it tells you whether it's in standby mode fully charged or fast charging and speaking of fast charging it can provide up to 100 Watts on either of the two top USBC ports perfect for any of your devices in fact it can charge an iPhone 15 Pro from 0% to 60% in just 30 minutes plus with the four ports you can plug in all of your devices including something like this other cute little guy the Uno 2 in1 magnetic wireless charger 15 watt which also includes a helpful friendly face but this little dude has some other fun features with its G2 certified magnetic wireless charger it not only can charge my iPhone but also my airpods thanks to the 5w charger on the back and with another USBC port on the side I can easily charge my Apple watch as well this thing has definitely earned a spot on my nightstand if you're looking to pick up some fast and fun charging accessories for the new iPhone or other Apple devices make sure to check out the ug green Uno magnetic wireless charger 15 wat Uno charger 100 watt and the rest of the Uno series by checking out the links in the description below to sort out the power supply issue I first looked up the specs and manual but all I could find there was that it used a 60 W external power supply before plugging in random power adapters I decided to open it up and investigate a bit more I meticulously disassembled the case by I'm kidding I think I managed to take it apart in the least efficient way possible removing way more screws than necessary at least they're conveniently all the same size I eventually got down to the motherboard and while I could at least confirm the polarity there was no hint as to the input voltage of the power supply I also noticed that this little system blower fan was unplugged so I just decided to plug that back into the fan header which would have been easier if there was a fan header well there technically was a header that I could plug it into but it was labeled SATA power and I didn't want to assume it would work so I just left it unplugged and the SATA power header wasn't the only interesting thing there also appeared to be headers for some non existant front panel audio and USB 2 ports as well as even a GPO header I was a bit surprised that for a system with an 11th gen Intel CPU that there was also a mini pcie slot well actually mini PCI or MSA slot depending on which pins were jumped on this little header here below that was a SIM card slot and there was also a Wi-Fi adapter in an m.2 e key socket as well as a 256 GB SATA SSD in the B and M Key to m.2 socket there were also two 4 GB ddr4 sodin modules and on the back there was a CPU Cooler for the Intel I3 1115 G4 a dual core 4 thread mobile CPU released back in 2020 sadly as expected there was no sort of HDMI capture card or anything my guess is that there would have been some sort of optional capture card in the mini PCI socket that my variant didn't have oh yeah I should probably talk about the other external io on the front there's a power button and on the back there's a threaded DC Barrel Jack 2 gbit NX 4 usb3 ports 4 HDMI ports and connect Connors for Wi-Fi antennas oh yeah and it also comes with this cool built-in mounting mechanism it seems like this could be a pretty cool system to play with that is if I could power it on I only had one adapter that would fit the threaded Jack on the back which was a 12volt 4 amp power supply 48 watts was less than the 60 wat spec but I was only planning to see if it posted I also figured if it needed something like a 19v power supply 12 volts wouldn't hurt so I gave it a shot yeah we got a post oh kind of that's a bit odd don't you think okay yeah that was weird but it only happened when I was trying to boot over the network and the BIOS looked totally normal well it looked pretty normal but actually had a lot of features available including what seemed to be settings for the GPI header I mentioned earlier I also noticed the 2 gbit nicks aren't the same one is an Intel i211 and the other is an i 29- v honestly I'm not entirely sure why they're different with my multimeter I also double checked the voltage on the SATA power header and it turns out that the two pins on the right were ground and 5 vol respectively which mapped to the corresponding wires for the fan and sure enough it worked it worked really well actually but the noise was a bit annoying also sadly my hopes of being able to hook up 3 and 1 halfin hard drives to this were crushed when I found there was no 12volt pin on that SATA power header also I should mention that I did reach out to ca's support team well actually the company that has since bought out cica but they were kind enough to let me know that this system would work with any 12vt or 19v power supply as long as it provided 60 watts fortunately in the meantime I had already found a 90 W 12volt power supply that worked just fine before doing any testing I wanted to make sure it had fresh thermal paste but this probably was a mistake as well the thermal paste that was on the system was pretty much perfect that didn't stop me from spraying with isopr alcohol and scrubbing it until it was squeaky clean now normally this is the part of the video where I would dust this thing off and clean it up but like I said it was pretty much dust free already so really all that was left to do was just assemble all of these parts oh that was pretty quick with the system put back together I wanted to see how well the I3 1115 G4 performed and what power consumption looked like and I also wanted to test out some of the ports on the board like the GPO header for example when installing dean2 I ran into a small hiccup which is that the Intel i211 Nick wouldn't work during the install so I had to switch to the i219v once I got Debian installed though I was able to get both Knicks working just fine after running power tops autotune function and unplugging everything from the board except power and networking the total system power draw idle dropped down to around 6 Watts not bad the CPU performance of the I3 wasn't quite as amazing though in suis bch when running the CPU test with four threads the dual core tiger Lake chip barely managed to outperform a Raspberry Pi 4 granted when running a single threaded Benchmark it looked much better incend bench R23 the i31 1115 G4 managed multi- threaded score of 2624 and a single threaded score of 1206 for comparison I grabbed the results of an i78700 and a Lenovo p330 as well as from an n100 Mini PC the single- threaded performance of the I3 was basically r on par with an E gen i78700 but didn't come close in terms of multi-threaded performance however it managed to outperform the true quad core Intel n100 in both tests when looking at Power draw on Windows we see that the 1115 G4 managed to draw significantly less power under load than the 8700 but Drew about twice as much power as the n100 system both at idle and when running cinch I didn't buy this system for the CPU though I bought it for all those fun ports and such to make sure the m.2 E key slot was wired up for pcie I swapped out the Wi-Fi card with a little m.2 e key dual SATA adapter that showed up correctly in Hardware info so I guess if you wanted you could make a little Tu Bay Nas out of this or something the mini PCI slot was already configured for MSA so I popped in an MSA SSD which also worked just as expected I started to move the jumper to the pcie position but oh no I dropped it that's gone forever fortunately I have some spares I plugged in a mini PCI Wi-Fi adapter but it was only a half length card so I just got to hold it in place still it showed up as expected now realistically I was expecting all of those to work but what I wasn't sure about was that gpio header I've really only messed around with the gpio on Raspberry pies and a couple of microcontrollers not an x86 board like this to start off I enable it in the Bios but notice there were only settings for eight pins and the header had 12 I was at least able to confirm that the eight pins in the Bios did in fact line up with the first eight pins on the header but when I ran gpiod and Debian there were 360 available lines I had no idea what would correspond to what I wrote a script or really chat GPT helped me write a script that would just cycle an output pin every second and as an example it just used line four I figured I would just cycle through all of the lines until I could eventually identify one of the pins with my multimeter but I'm not lying when I tell you the first pin I tested pin 2 was the pin that correlated with line four I have no idea how I got so lucky I didn't have any immediate ideas on what to do with this other than making this little LED flick on and off but I'm sure there are plenty of interesting projects that this could come in handy for put your suggestions down in the comments it was cool to see everything working as expected but what could this system actually be used for well obviously this could be used as a simple desktop system or you could set it up as a Home Server to run various services you could also use it as a digital signage machine I guess but I had two ideas I thought would make a lot of sense the first would be as a router possibly even a travel router with the Dual NYX and Wi-Fi antenna connections you could install something like open wrrt and use this as a router and wireless access point and if you wanted you could possibly even use the mini pcie slot to add in a cellular otem and SIM card to have a wireless weigh connection for when you travel or something I considered and even started trying to set something like this up but quickly realized it was going to be a project outside the scope of this video because what I really wanted to try out was setting this up as an NVR using something like blue iris and there are a few reasons for this first of all the Dual NYX could also be useful here you could connect your network with one and then isolate all of your cameras on a separate Network or V land using the other with the m.2 and pcie Slots you could not only add in more storage or faster networking but also drop in something like a coral TPU for object detection and with all four HDMI ports you could even hook up a bunch of monitors if you wanted to have an actual survey station so I downloaded Blue Iris as well as code project AI which would handle the object detection for that though I wanted to use one of those Coral tpus I already own one but it's currently in my little prox MOX Mini PC so since I already had one of these in an m.2 e key form factor I bought a mini pcie version but forgot about the whole half length card thing so I took some measurements realized that was pointless because mini PCI is a well documented standard threw together a design and printed it out the TPU was recognized and after a bit of tinkering I got my camera set up and object detection working now I only have a few cameras so using a project I found on GitHub I set up a stack in painer to spin up a bunch of rtsp streams so that I could pretend like my little surveillance setup was doing something important I grabbed a few old extra monitors but ran out of VGA adapters so I grabbed the little portable HDMI monitor and eventually had a sweet little surveillance setup with multiple monitors now you might have remembered at the beginning of this video I mentioned that this cica Mini PC might have found a place in my home lab and that's sort of true I wasn't just testing out Blue Iris for the sake of this video I was also testing it out to see if I wanted to switch to that rather than continuing to use surveillance station on my old sonology Nas now rather than hooking it up in the closet that has all of my networking gear and servers I actually used the mounting mechanism to attach it to the bottom of this table in my living room and I figure after I get a little HDMI switch or something I can hook that computer directly up to my TV to be able to quickly and easily monitor Blue Iris if I want or I could even use it as a little home theater PC as well and yeah it might be a little bit weird that it's not in the closet with all of my other networking gear and such but it also means I have a computer in the living room that can do multiple things and is not contributing more heat to that little closet and sort of in a sense if someone were to break into my house and steal everything out of the networking closet they probably wouldn't find the little mini computer tucked underneath the table so if for some reason someone did steal both of my traz servers that would have the security footage backed up to it I would still have the first copy that would still be on the SSD on my blue iris machine in the living room so that's probably not going to happen but I like the fact that I can run Blue Iris on that computer in the living room and have access to it but also use it for streaming games to my living room or something so we'll see how well this goes but it seems like that little cica mini PC might have actually solved a real world problem for me for $100 I feel like this was a pretty good deal the performance is pretty solid there are good features that offer flexibility but most importantly this thing is just a lot of fun to mess around with now odds are you won't be able to go out there right now and buy something exactly like this for a good price but maybe keep your eyes peeled for a good deal to pop up who knows something like this might be your next project I had a ton of fun making this video and I hope you had fun watching it as well if so maybe consider giving this video a like and watching a few more that's about it for this one though so as always thank you guys so much for watching stay curious and I really can't wait to see you in the next oneI love tinkering with computers and seeing what all they can do but if we're being honest typical consumer PCS can get a little dull that's why I'm always on the hunt for things like this this little PC may have been designed for one specific purpose but today we're going to explore what hidden features it might have how it can be repurposed in interesting and useful ways and why it might just earn a permanent spot in my home lab one day while perusing through eBay listings I came across this PC from cica based off of the title and the existence of four HDMI ports it was clear that this was designed for digital signage but I also noticed the Dual NYX modern Intel processor and this HDMI input well what could have been an HDMI input obviously it wasn't punched out but all of those potential features and the simple industrial case had me really intrigued and I won the auction for just a little over $100 in total I didn't look up the specs so I really didn't know if that was a good or bad deal but I was already pretty set on checking it out when I first got out of the packaging I was a bit surprised at how clean it was I didn't expect a ton of scrapes or dents since I imagined this would have spent most of its life tucked behind some TVs or something but I at least expected some dust or goop but as I said it looked to be in really good condition however I did immediately notice the first big issue so I didn't realize it doesn't have a power adapter dang it if only used a USBC Port then I could have easily powered it from this adorable Uno charger 100 watt from today's sponsor ug green the face on this cute little guy isn't just for looks it tells you whether it's in standby mode fully charged or fast charging and speaking of fast charging it can provide up to 100 Watts on either of the two top USBC ports perfect for any of your devices in fact it can charge an iPhone 15 Pro from 0% to 60% in just 30 minutes plus with the four ports you can plug in all of your devices including something like this other cute little guy the Uno 2 in1 magnetic wireless charger 15 watt which also includes a helpful friendly face but this little dude has some other fun features with its G2 certified magnetic wireless charger it not only can charge my iPhone but also my airpods thanks to the 5w charger on the back and with another USBC port on the side I can easily charge my Apple watch as well this thing has definitely earned a spot on my nightstand if you're looking to pick up some fast and fun charging accessories for the new iPhone or other Apple devices make sure to check out the ug green Uno magnetic wireless charger 15 wat Uno charger 100 watt and the rest of the Uno series by checking out the links in the description below to sort out the power supply issue I first looked up the specs and manual but all I could find there was that it used a 60 W external power supply before plugging in random power adapters I decided to open it up and investigate a bit more I meticulously disassembled the case by I'm kidding I think I managed to take it apart in the least efficient way possible removing way more screws than necessary at least they're conveniently all the same size I eventually got down to the motherboard and while I could at least confirm the polarity there was no hint as to the input voltage of the power supply I also noticed that this little system blower fan was unplugged so I just decided to plug that back into the fan header which would have been easier if there was a fan header well there technically was a header that I could plug it into but it was labeled SATA power and I didn't want to assume it would work so I just left it unplugged and the SATA power header wasn't the only interesting thing there also appeared to be headers for some non existant front panel audio and USB 2 ports as well as even a GPO header I was a bit surprised that for a system with an 11th gen Intel CPU that there was also a mini pcie slot well actually mini PCI or MSA slot depending on which pins were jumped on this little header here below that was a SIM card slot and there was also a Wi-Fi adapter in an m.2 e key socket as well as a 256 GB SATA SSD in the B and M Key to m.2 socket there were also two 4 GB ddr4 sodin modules and on the back there was a CPU Cooler for the Intel I3 1115 G4 a dual core 4 thread mobile CPU released back in 2020 sadly as expected there was no sort of HDMI capture card or anything my guess is that there would have been some sort of optional capture card in the mini PCI socket that my variant didn't have oh yeah I should probably talk about the other external io on the front there's a power button and on the back there's a threaded DC Barrel Jack 2 gbit NX 4 usb3 ports 4 HDMI ports and connect Connors for Wi-Fi antennas oh yeah and it also comes with this cool built-in mounting mechanism it seems like this could be a pretty cool system to play with that is if I could power it on I only had one adapter that would fit the threaded Jack on the back which was a 12volt 4 amp power supply 48 watts was less than the 60 wat spec but I was only planning to see if it posted I also figured if it needed something like a 19v power supply 12 volts wouldn't hurt so I gave it a shot yeah we got a post oh kind of that's a bit odd don't you think okay yeah that was weird but it only happened when I was trying to boot over the network and the BIOS looked totally normal well it looked pretty normal but actually had a lot of features available including what seemed to be settings for the GPI header I mentioned earlier I also noticed the 2 gbit nicks aren't the same one is an Intel i211 and the other is an i 29- v honestly I'm not entirely sure why they're different with my multimeter I also double checked the voltage on the SATA power header and it turns out that the two pins on the right were ground and 5 vol respectively which mapped to the corresponding wires for the fan and sure enough it worked it worked really well actually but the noise was a bit annoying also sadly my hopes of being able to hook up 3 and 1 halfin hard drives to this were crushed when I found there was no 12volt pin on that SATA power header also I should mention that I did reach out to ca's support team well actually the company that has since bought out cica but they were kind enough to let me know that this system would work with any 12vt or 19v power supply as long as it provided 60 watts fortunately in the meantime I had already found a 90 W 12volt power supply that worked just fine before doing any testing I wanted to make sure it had fresh thermal paste but this probably was a mistake as well the thermal paste that was on the system was pretty much perfect that didn't stop me from spraying with isopr alcohol and scrubbing it until it was squeaky clean now normally this is the part of the video where I would dust this thing off and clean it up but like I said it was pretty much dust free already so really all that was left to do was just assemble all of these parts oh that was pretty quick with the system put back together I wanted to see how well the I3 1115 G4 performed and what power consumption looked like and I also wanted to test out some of the ports on the board like the GPO header for example when installing dean2 I ran into a small hiccup which is that the Intel i211 Nick wouldn't work during the install so I had to switch to the i219v once I got Debian installed though I was able to get both Knicks working just fine after running power tops autotune function and unplugging everything from the board except power and networking the total system power draw idle dropped down to around 6 Watts not bad the CPU performance of the I3 wasn't quite as amazing though in suis bch when running the CPU test with four threads the dual core tiger Lake chip barely managed to outperform a Raspberry Pi 4 granted when running a single threaded Benchmark it looked much better incend bench R23 the i31 1115 G4 managed multi- threaded score of 2624 and a single threaded score of 1206 for comparison I grabbed the results of an i78700 and a Lenovo p330 as well as from an n100 Mini PC the single- threaded performance of the I3 was basically r on par with an E gen i78700 but didn't come close in terms of multi-threaded performance however it managed to outperform the true quad core Intel n100 in both tests when looking at Power draw on Windows we see that the 1115 G4 managed to draw significantly less power under load than the 8700 but Drew about twice as much power as the n100 system both at idle and when running cinch I didn't buy this system for the CPU though I bought it for all those fun ports and such to make sure the m.2 E key slot was wired up for pcie I swapped out the Wi-Fi card with a little m.2 e key dual SATA adapter that showed up correctly in Hardware info so I guess if you wanted you could make a little Tu Bay Nas out of this or something the mini PCI slot was already configured for MSA so I popped in an MSA SSD which also worked just as expected I started to move the jumper to the pcie position but oh no I dropped it that's gone forever fortunately I have some spares I plugged in a mini PCI Wi-Fi adapter but it was only a half length card so I just got to hold it in place still it showed up as expected now realistically I was expecting all of those to work but what I wasn't sure about was that gpio header I've really only messed around with the gpio on Raspberry pies and a couple of microcontrollers not an x86 board like this to start off I enable it in the Bios but notice there were only settings for eight pins and the header had 12 I was at least able to confirm that the eight pins in the Bios did in fact line up with the first eight pins on the header but when I ran gpiod and Debian there were 360 available lines I had no idea what would correspond to what I wrote a script or really chat GPT helped me write a script that would just cycle an output pin every second and as an example it just used line four I figured I would just cycle through all of the lines until I could eventually identify one of the pins with my multimeter but I'm not lying when I tell you the first pin I tested pin 2 was the pin that correlated with line four I have no idea how I got so lucky I didn't have any immediate ideas on what to do with this other than making this little LED flick on and off but I'm sure there are plenty of interesting projects that this could come in handy for put your suggestions down in the comments it was cool to see everything working as expected but what could this system actually be used for well obviously this could be used as a simple desktop system or you could set it up as a Home Server to run various services you could also use it as a digital signage machine I guess but I had two ideas I thought would make a lot of sense the first would be as a router possibly even a travel router with the Dual NYX and Wi-Fi antenna connections you could install something like open wrrt and use this as a router and wireless access point and if you wanted you could possibly even use the mini pcie slot to add in a cellular otem and SIM card to have a wireless weigh connection for when you travel or something I considered and even started trying to set something like this up but quickly realized it was going to be a project outside the scope of this video because what I really wanted to try out was setting this up as an NVR using something like blue iris and there are a few reasons for this first of all the Dual NYX could also be useful here you could connect your network with one and then isolate all of your cameras on a separate Network or V land using the other with the m.2 and pcie Slots you could not only add in more storage or faster networking but also drop in something like a coral TPU for object detection and with all four HDMI ports you could even hook up a bunch of monitors if you wanted to have an actual survey station so I downloaded Blue Iris as well as code project AI which would handle the object detection for that though I wanted to use one of those Coral tpus I already own one but it's currently in my little prox MOX Mini PC so since I already had one of these in an m.2 e key form factor I bought a mini pcie version but forgot about the whole half length card thing so I took some measurements realized that was pointless because mini PCI is a well documented standard threw together a design and printed it out the TPU was recognized and after a bit of tinkering I got my camera set up and object detection working now I only have a few cameras so using a project I found on GitHub I set up a stack in painer to spin up a bunch of rtsp streams so that I could pretend like my little surveillance setup was doing something important I grabbed a few old extra monitors but ran out of VGA adapters so I grabbed the little portable HDMI monitor and eventually had a sweet little surveillance setup with multiple monitors now you might have remembered at the beginning of this video I mentioned that this cica Mini PC might have found a place in my home lab and that's sort of true I wasn't just testing out Blue Iris for the sake of this video I was also testing it out to see if I wanted to switch to that rather than continuing to use surveillance station on my old sonology Nas now rather than hooking it up in the closet that has all of my networking gear and servers I actually used the mounting mechanism to attach it to the bottom of this table in my living room and I figure after I get a little HDMI switch or something I can hook that computer directly up to my TV to be able to quickly and easily monitor Blue Iris if I want or I could even use it as a little home theater PC as well and yeah it might be a little bit weird that it's not in the closet with all of my other networking gear and such but it also means I have a computer in the living room that can do multiple things and is not contributing more heat to that little closet and sort of in a sense if someone were to break into my house and steal everything out of the networking closet they probably wouldn't find the little mini computer tucked underneath the table so if for some reason someone did steal both of my traz servers that would have the security footage backed up to it I would still have the first copy that would still be on the SSD on my blue iris machine in the living room so that's probably not going to happen but I like the fact that I can run Blue Iris on that computer in the living room and have access to it but also use it for streaming games to my living room or something so we'll see how well this goes but it seems like that little cica mini PC might have actually solved a real world problem for me for $100 I feel like this was a pretty good deal the performance is pretty solid there are good features that offer flexibility but most importantly this thing is just a lot of fun to mess around with now odds are you won't be able to go out there right now and buy something exactly like this for a good price but maybe keep your eyes peeled for a good deal to pop up who knows something like this might be your next project I had a ton of fun making this video and I hope you had fun watching it as well if so maybe consider giving this video a like and watching a few more that's about it for this one though so as always thank you guys so much for watching stay curious and I really can't wait to see you in the next one\n"